security/{nmap,zenmap} consolodation

olli hauer ohauer at gmx.de
Mon Jul 4 22:26:01 UTC 2011


On 2011-07-04 23:20, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2011 21:47, "Eitan Adler" <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jhell at dataix.net>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi ohauer@
>>>
>>> I was curious if you would be intnerested in consolidating
>>> security/zenmap into security/nmap with the options framework and
>>> deprecating security/zenmap since it continually falls pretty far behind
>>> newer versions of nmap in ports.
>>
>> Remember that with the OPTIONS framework only one package gets
>> generated: whatever the default OPTION is. Not everyone wants the GUI
>> and those who want the GUI may not want to build the port from source.
>>
> 
> Ok... so how about a master/slave port?
> 
> That'd keep everything in sync.

Hm, the only part both ports share is the sourefile ...

We can try a master/slave, but I suspect it will end in many additional
.ifdef/.ifndef in the nmap Makefile which makes maintenance harder.
Additional both ports should keep a own pkg-plist (not a shared one).



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